A week ago I wrote a post in support of the POTUS Project's efforts to get President Obama to speak at this year's commencement. Borrowing an analogy from Tony Gong of Obama-as-hot-girl-we're-trying-to-win-back and Columbia-as-awkward-guy-who-did-hot-girl-wrong, I wrote then, and still believe, that grand romantic gestures are the only way we're going to get the president to overcome his apparent indifference to (or bitter recollection of) Alma Mater. Today I have a few proposals for what those grand romantic gestures might look like:
